Show I SCENES AT BIG SLIDE Quick Work of Union Pacific in Meeting Trouble I I I NIGHT AND DAY FORCE l I Two Steam Shovels and 300 Men Employed on Work Track Closed Nearly Six Days but All That Time Great Work Was Performed at Slide What can be accomplished by a grout railroad system In the event of some Tinforseen calamity war illustrated lost week at Aspftii tunnel on the Union Pacific Pa-cific On Sunday April 12th a landslide land-slide occurred at the east portal which Mocked the track at that point By the iamo evening Hunt W L Park was on the scene with a wrecking outfit and many laborers but as It was seen that unusual conditions had arisen It 1 was found necessary to secure more help and it was ordered out By Tuesday Tues-day several more slides had taken place nnd In Tact the earth at the point named was constantly on the move tothe danger of those working to stem its passage Chief Engineer J B Berry I Superintendent of Transportation E Buckingham of the system with the district roadmaster and other officials had also arrived and no trouble or expense ex-pense were spared to get the tradk cleared and the trains running How this was accomplished In so short a time would be a very long story but enough to say that It was one of the hest pieces of hurryup work ever known on a Western line The track was closed from April 2th to April 18th but all time time the forces were at work at the slide CAUSE OF THE SIn S-In this region the snow has been unusually un-usually heavy the past winter and back of the cut at the portal the top or the hill had become thoroughly soaked I aid many springs added to the condition I condi-tion When It had worked Its way Into n fissure a 1001 had been formed and the water gradually loosened the top of the bank and it began to slide Into I the cut It was sticky red mud with some rock and gravel making a substance sub-stance very haul to work and as It kept sliding the men had lots oC trouble in checking Its progress Over the track at the portal It was about twenty feet high and the Jlrst t work was to get this oIL the trnrk Two steam shovels JIOO men and many teams with equipment r equip-ment made up the working outfit and r night and day the shifts attacked the pile of debris Wells llgjits were used at night and It was a strange scene to see the ghostlike figures moving in the glare with a snow storm as the chief fet ting with an accompaniment from two steam shovels and several locomotives i locomo-tives It is probable that 30000 cubic yards bf mud and rocks were removed It was loaded on ballast cars and taken some miles eastward where a steam pump was used to wash It oft the cars and down a stream of water The first train through was on Saturday Satur-day morning and from now on the service ser-vice will be as before It was a serious dUIIcully for the railroad but such an accident as may happen at any time on a mountain road The manner in which the track was cleared however lefleclcd great credit upon all the officials of-ficials who were on the ground |